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Jerusalem Controversy

Israeli-Palestinian Clashes Intensify as More Jews Visit Jerusalem’s Contested Holy Site Jerusalem Controversy

Israeli-Palestinian Clashes Intensify as More Jews Visit Jerusalem’s Contested Holy Site

A wave of clashes between Israeli authorities and Palestinians in Jerusalem has brought renewed attention to the growth in religious Jewish visitors to the city’s holiest site and escalating fears among Muslims that they are losing control of sacred ground. After a week of near-daily violence on the site known…
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April 21, 2022
Minor clashes at Al-Aqsa Mosque ahead of planned right-wing march in Jerusalem Jerusalem Controversy

Minor clashes at Al-Aqsa Mosque ahead of planned right-wing march in Jerusalem

Minor confrontations were reported at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount and the Al-Aqsa Mosque Wednesday morning between Israeli police and Palestinians, with heightened tensions in the city ahead of a planned right-wing march that has not been approved by authorities. Videos from the mount showed rocks and Molotov cocktails being hurled at…
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April 20, 2022
Jordan’s King Abdullah warns Israeli moves in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque are threat to peace Jerusalem Controversy

Jordan’s King Abdullah warns Israeli moves in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque are threat to peace

AMMAN: Jordan's King Abdullah said on Monday that Israel’s “unilateral” moves against Muslim worshippers at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque seriously undermined the prospects for peace in the region, state media said. The monarch, who was speaking with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, blamed Israel for “provocative acts” in the mosque compound that…
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April 19, 2022
Israel downs Gaza rocket, admonishes Jordan as Jerusalem tensions simmer Jerusalem Controversy

Israel downs Gaza rocket, admonishes Jordan as Jerusalem tensions simmer

Published April 19, 2022 10:57am JERUSALEM - Israel shot down a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip on Monday, the Israeli military said, the first such attack in months as tensions over a flashpoint Jerusalem shrine drew angry pro-Palestinian rhetoric from Jordan and US mediation efforts. No Gaza faction claimed…
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April 19, 2022
Arab party suspends Israeli coalition govt membership amid Jerusalem violence Jerusalem Controversy

Arab party suspends Israeli coalition govt membership amid Jerusalem violence

Israel's fractious governing coalition faced a new split on Sunday when Arab-Israeli party Raam "suspended" its membership, after violence around a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site that wounded 170 people over the weekend. The government -- an ideologically disparate mix of left-wing, hardline Jewish nationalist and religious parties, as well as…
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April 18, 2022
Wine from settlement at VP Harris’s Seder sparks political controversy Jerusalem Controversy

Wine from settlement at VP Harris’s Seder sparks political controversy

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April 17, 2022